Category: Music

Albums released in 2008 that I listened to more than once and still have a non-trivial number of songs in my iTunes library as of today. Best way I can think of to describe what I liked last year without resorting to an arbitrary top ten/whatever list.

1. Alastair Galbraith – Orb
2. Antietam – Opus Mixtum
3. Aterciopelados – Rio
4. Au Revoir Borealis – Dark Enough For Stars
5. Auburn Lull – Begin Civil Twilight
6. Avrocar – Against The Dying Of The Light
7. The B-52’s – Funplex
8. Barbara Morgenstern – BM
9. Bardo Pond – Batholith
10. Barn Owl – From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light
11. Beangrowers – Not In A Million Lovers
12. Belong – Colorloss Record
13. Belong – Same Places
14. Benoît Pioulard – Temper
15. Bitcrush – Epilogue In Waves
16. The Black Angels – Directions To See A Ghost
17. The Breeders – Mountain Battles
18. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground
19. Brightblack Morning Light – Motion To Rejoin
20. The Broken West – Now Or Heaven
21. Caesars – Strawberry Weed
22. Calexico – Carried To Dust
23. Camille – Music Hole
24. Caramelitus – El Otro Habitat EP
25. Cat Power – Jukebox
26. Celer – Discourses Of The Withered
27. Cloudland Canyon – Lie In Light
28. Clue To Kalo – Lily Perdida
29. Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night
30. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
31. David Gilmour – Live In Gdansk
32. The Declining Winter – Goodbye Minnesota
33. Duffy – Rockferry
34. The Duke Spirit – Neptune
35. Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live
36. Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live Vol. 2
37. Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live Vol. 3: The Euroboot Album
38. The Fall – Imperial Wax Solvent
39. Fennesz – Black Sea
40. First Communion Afterparty – Sorry For All The Mondays And To Those Who Can’t Sing
41. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
42. Gas – Nah Und Fern
43. Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday
44. Grails – Take Refuge In Clean Living
45. Grouper – Dragging A Dead Dear Up A Hill
46. Headless Heroes – The Silence Of Love
47. Helen Boulding – New Red Dress
48. Hollow Ox – Hollow Ox
49. Infadels – Universe In Reverse
50. James Blackshaw – Litany Of Echoes
51. Jane Birkin – Enfants D’hiver
52. Jasper TX – Black Sleep
53. Jasper TX – Closet Ghosts
54. Jasper TX – This Quiet Season
55. Je Suis Animal – Self-Taught Magic From A Book
56. Juliana Hatfield – How To Walk Away
57. Kontakte – Soundtracks To Lost Road Movies
58. Ladytron – Velocifero
59. Lakes Of Russia – Stars Decorate The Fire
60. Lau Nau – Nukkuu
61. Lawrence English – Kiri No Oto
62. Lights Out Asia – Eyes Like Brontide
63. Lola Dutronic – In Berlin
64. The Long Blondes – Couples
65. The Lovetones – Dimensions
66. M83 – Saturdays = Youth
67. Native Korean Rock & The Fishnets – Native Korean Rock & The Fishnets
68. Nicole Atkins – Digs Other People’s Songs
69. Our Sleepless Forest – Our Sleepless Forest
70. Piano Magic – Dark Horses EP
71. Portishead – Third
72. The Postmarks – By The Numbers
73. The Quarter After – Changes Near
74. Quiet Village – Silent Movie
75. R.E.M. – Accelerate
76. The Raveonettes – Sometimes They Drop By
77. The Raveonettes – Wishing You A Rave Christmas
78. Red Sparowes – Aphorisms
79. Sam Phillips – Don’t Do Anything
80. School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
81. Scott Tuma – Not For Nobody
82. Secret Machines – Secret Machines
83. The Shortwave Set – Replica Sun Machine
84. Sophie Hunger – Monday’s Ghost
85. Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis – Indian Giver
86. Spiritualized – Songs In A&E
87. Stereolab – Chemical Chords
88. Steve Kilbey – Painkiller
89. Suki Ewers – Kind Of Hazy
90. Thee American Revolution – Buddha Electrostorm
91. Ulaan Khol – Ulaan Khol I
92. Ulaan Khol – Ulaan Khol II
93. The Verve – Forth
94. Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls
95. The Walkmen – You & Me
96. White Hinterland – Luniculaire EP
97. Windy & Carl – Songs For The Broken Hearted
98. Windy Weber – I Hate People
99. Wire – Object 47
100. Wooden Shjips – Wooden Shjips Vol. 1
101. Wye Oak – If Children
102. Yellow6 – When The Leaves Fall Like Snow
103. Yo La Tengo – They Shoot, We Score